.. PRTG Manual: Maps

With the Maps feature (some people might call this 'dashboards') you can create web pages with up-to-the-minute monitoring status information in a customizable layout. Using this unique concept, you can also make your overview pages of live data publicly available, if you like.

There are countless possibilities for the implementation of maps. For example, you can use this feature to:

Create network maps with status icons for each device on the map.

Create quick views of your network that can be shown on network operations center screens.

Create a quick network overview for publishing on the Intranet, allowing information for management of other employees at a glance.

Create a custom view of the most important sensors in your monitoring setup.

Create Top 10 lists of the sensors of a specific group or device.

Technically, a map is a usual HTML web page. You can build a schema of your network by choosing from hundreds of device icons and connecting them with lines. A map can consist of the following elements:

An optional background image (a JPG, PNG, or GIF file, for example, your company logo, or a graphical view of your network).

You can also specify the size of the map. Using the map editor, you can place items anywhere on the map, and you can also change their size. Each map has a unique URL that you can use to link to the map. Users who want to access the map either need an account in your PRTG installation, or can access a public URL of the map if you enable the Public Access feature. Public maps contain a unique Map ID access key in the URL to block unwanted visitors.

PRTG comes with a pre-configured standard map that you can use right away. You can also change or delete it, if you like. The map is automatically created when you install PRTG for the first time (visible for the PRTG System Administrator user):

Sample Dashboard: By default, this map shows a graphical structure of your device tree, a list of alarms, a geo map, and more. This sample map has a 5*****priority so you can also open it under Home in the main menu. To not show it in the main menu, define a lower priority.

Start Maps

ClickMaps in the main menu to view or add custom views of your network's status and monitoring data. Hover over Maps to show other menu items. Choose from:

Maps

All

Open the Maps overview page where you can view or add custom views of your network's status and monitoring data.

Please also see section Working with Table Lists. Additionally, the multi-edit functionality is available. This enables you to change properties of several objects simultaneously via bulk changes. For more details, see section Multi-Edit.

Map Rotation

The Map Rotation feature in PRTG allows you to show several maps or dashboards rotating on one page. Map rotation makes it possible to show different information on one screen based on time. You can compare this with a slide show. Follow the steps below to configure your own map rotation.

That's all: PRTG will show the selected maps in rotation on a new page. This requires login credentials for PRTG.

You can change the time until a new map appears with the arrows symbol in the lower-right corner. Hover over the arrows symbol and choose from 10s, 30s, 60s (seconds), 10m (minutes), and Refresh now.

Start Map Rotation

Public Map Rotation

You can also set up a public map rotation that you can use without login credentials. For this purpose, you have to create a custom URL that defines which maps will publicly rotate. The public map rotation URL has this format: the address of your PRTG server, followed by /public/mapshow.htm?ids=, followed by map IDs and secret keys.

Find the map IDs and secret keys to add them to the URL that opens the public map rotation.

To find the ID of a map, open the map with your web browser. The map ID is included in the URL of the map as value of the parameter id, for example, https://<yourprtgserver>/map.htm?id=2124, where the number 2124 is the needed ID.

To find the secret key of a map, open the settings of the map, make sure you have selected a public access option, and copy the entry of the Secret Key field.

Connect each map ID with the secret key of the same map using a colon, in this format: mapid:secretkey

Add all IDs with their secret keys to the URL for the public map rotation. Separate each mapid:secretkey token from the next mapid:secretkey token with a comma.

The complete URL has this format: https://yourprtgserver/public/mapshow.htm?ids=mapid1:secretkey1,mapid2:secretkey2,mapid3:secretkey3This is an example URL for public rotation of two maps: https://prtg.example.com/public/mapshow.htm?ids=9507:4049BEA1-B89C-4B5D-ACC4-3C8E00566EB8,9358:718D3CE1-DF00-4B92-AE8A-E0253B912C37

Open the created URL with your browser and PRTG will start the public map rotation.

You can change the time until a new map appears with the arrows symbol in the lower-right corner. Hover over the arrows symbol and choose from 10s, 30s, 60s (seconds), 10m (minutes), and Refresh now.

Maps in Home Menu

You can add any map to Home in the main menu bar of the PRTG web interface. This option gives you quick access to your most important maps.

You can control whether a map appears in the Home menu via priorities. Every map with a 5***** star priority will appear as a single entry under Home. You can include up to 10 map entries in the Home menu.